Saturday, September 13, 2008

Learning 2.0

New breed of teacher blends Facebook with textbooks. Fourth in a Tyee reader-funded series.

By Nick Smith
Georgia Straight: September 12, 2008

Chris Kennedy asks me to call him back after he has put his children to bed. Eager to speak to the new assistant superintendent of the West Vancouver School District, I readily agree. As a school administrator in Coquitlam, he made a name for himself as an advocate of "blended learning," a fusion of best classroom practices and online tools.

"As I see it, every class of the future is a blended class," Kennedy declares when I get back to him, after he has tucked in his kids...


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